Tired of shooting photos of your latest meal for Instagram? Need some new ideas, some challenges, something new and fresh to do with your iPhone camera. Well... ok do this.
Yep you heard that right. Check out OkDoThis.com!
This brand new app (currently available only for the iOS for $1.99) has been all the talk today on Facebook and Twitter.
The idea behind the app is that you offer up a suggestion for your friends to photograph and then everyone shares a photo that fits the suggestion. For example...
"Share a photo of your desk."
"Grab everything within an arms reach and shoot a selphy with it all."
"A photo with perfect symmetry."
"Two opposites."
"Share a photo of something red."
My suggestions written here are simple, but I think you get the idea. The app has become extremely popular in a very short of amount of time as photographers are building their networks of other photographers and inspiring one another with creative answers to the photo suggestions being shared. I just jumped on board as well, you can follow me by searching for my username @trevordayley.
The idea behind the app came from world-renowned photographer Jeremy Cowart. He took the idea to the app development team at Aloompa and after over a year of development the app launched in the Apple App Store on 11.25.13.
The app has only been out for 24 hours but many users are already claiming it is going to be the next big thing. I look forward to seeing how the community shares, inspires and develops. You ready to give it a shot? OkDoThis.com
Awesome app. Just waiting for the Android app so I can join the fun. Come on Jeremey, get those developers in line. :)
What sucks is that this app/ network is only available for I- phone users.
The other half of mankind doesn't participate.
("But everybody in the creative world use iphones!" -"Of course, since everybody ELSE isn't figured in." Talk about self- fulfilling prophecies
Just look at G+ or similat networks. They all have projects like this. Daily Shoot is an example on g+ http://www.allmyplus.com/dailyshoot/
You have to start somewhere man. They are a start-up. They went after a certain demographic first rather then blow the load on trying to boil the ocean right off the bat. Like instagram. .
It's because iOS is easier to design for as a developer. With android you have 3 dominant OS versions each representing about 1/3 of the user base. iOS is almost completely converted to iOS7. Knowing what OS to code for and what APIs to use is huge.
Second, android is an infinite amount of screen sizes as a UX designer it's hell to deal with. Apple currently has 2 ipad screen sizes and 2 iphone sizes, that makes things far more straight forward.
This is the reason developers favor iOS and prefer to code for that ecosystem first, then moving to android.
I think you are an Apple fanatic.
I don't get the hype about this. Daily or weekly assignments are a part of so many social and photo networks, it's nothing new.
This isn't anywhere near a new idea. Photo Friday is going on eleven years old — https://www.photofriday.com
Challenge > Interpret > Submit/Share
I fail to see how ODT is anything other than making it mobile and taking away the luxury of time.
I think that's the point. It's making it mobile...simplifying it...and making it immediate.
Look at Snapchat. It basically has no purpose and is just a self-deleting picture text app, but I imagine part of the reason why it got popular is because it's quick and simple.
You hit it. "mobile and taking away the luxury of time." - that's the key.
didn't know about this!! Thanks :)
Sounds interestingly challenging, might give it a try!
LAME
the app looks awesome... but for life of me i will never understand why they spent so much time on the app and made it for only iphone. 2 years ago i could see why... but now that more then half the user base is on android, they are missing a huge section of users... let alone not including an ipad version which tons of people use to tether into and could lead to some great images being added....
You have to start somewhere man. They are a start-up. They went after a certain demographic first rather then blow the load on trying to boil the ocean right off the bat. Like instagram.
tried it out. certainly a well designed app....but a lot of really stupid ideas.
Doesn't really do anything to improve your photography...but I dont think that is really what it's about. Not really sure how "creative" you are being by doing other people's ideas all the time.
not really sold on it, but I'll keep playing.
Certainly lots of rabid hype about the app...
It's certainly made a big splash on the app store, facebook and twitter,
but it will be interesting to see whether it stays popular.
If it was free I'd try it. If they found another way to monetize the app besides charging users I'm sure 10X as many people would sign up.
Another social app for Millenials needing peer approval before thinking or doing for themselves. Yes, I am a Millenial...
Only you're a better than everyone else Millenial. Thanks for clarifying.
On the surface I think the app is really clever and seems potentially compelling, however, personally, I just don't have time/interest in yet another photo sharing social network experience. Between instagram, facebook, snapchat, pinterest, G+, 500px, etc I feel like I have reached (and surpassed) my image sharing threshold.
If you're a photographer that just happens to have all the equipment and more than what you need but lacks the talent and creativity to produce any decent work... guess what "there's an app for that".
this is not original, the marketing approach was done well(prob bribed well), and they happen to have launched it perfectly just before instagram starts putting Ads.
The app is an insult to personal individual creativity, but if this continues and instagram does permit Ads on the app, this may have a chance of a level of competition for serious photographers who are looking for a new ground to grow with their work.
Why does anyone think this is a great idea?
$1.99 for an app which should be called "pinstergram".... no sale!
When I first saw the title, I was thinking: "Great! Now I can browse interesting poses that I can suggest to my subject or now I can browse interesting photos of great photographers filtered by subject and title". But no, it's just a text like game that tell's you what to do. This is like text based game on my first HC 90.
sounds like a new fun photo app!
What the f is wrong with all the people complaining about buying Apps for 2 Dollars?! Jesus. You buy a coffee for 4 bucks, lenses for 2.500 and you get paid a few hundred a day for a photo job. Who cares about 2 dollars?
"What if you could come up with your own ideas? What if you did what you wanted and had to stand by your decisions? What if you didn't constantly seek approval from people you couldn't possibly respect, because you don't know them and have never interacted with them? What if there was no app for this, because, You don't need one? We made "FuckYouIDidThis" for you!"
With FuckYouIDidThis you can do exactly what you want, on your own timeline. You can share your ideas with no one if that's what you want. Maybe you don't need help with creative ideas because you're a real artist. Maybe you feel that the old fashioned way of getting things done has worked so well for the great minds of the past that you just might give it a try. Maybe you're just not easily swayed by the ignorant first level opinions of non artists. Whatever the case FuckYouIDidThis might be for you, or maybe you just don't care."
I) this is amazing
II) I really feel that you should omit the I from the title before you stick it up on kickstarter.
Serious? iPhone only? 80+% market for android and... no?
OK....
I think the comment about monetizing the app is on the right track. This just seems one step away from instant stock photos for pay as well as websites, news outlets, etc. bypassing pro photographers for instant, cheap "man on the ground" pics. How long until a news outlet uses an app like this to post "take a pic of the protest happening downtown" and offers $5 for whichever photo it uses. Or a website is running a story about a new study on the ability of autistic children to recognize emotions from facial expressions and puts out a "take a photo of people smiling, frowning, angry, etc." and pays $5 for each pic they use. The app takes a small percentage and everyone except working photographers goes home happy. Sad, but it's the world we're heading toward.
Looks interesting. Funny seeing all the Android comments. I love the more than half figure pull out of thin air comment. I know a ton of creative people in many industries, and the majority of them use iOS. "More than half" bwhahaha!
Your photography application is as good and quality as the Play Store, CHPlay, AppStore apps that I see from https://iplaystoredownloadfree.com/